Frankly Speaking

Frankly Speaking - Week 18
8 May 2018

Welcome to our week 18 update. The weather cleared at the beginning of last week with the harvest teams getting back into the orchards mid week and we are well in the home straight with the SunGold harvest. Our harvesting crews are over the top of the clearances and we expect to complete harvest this week with only those growers struggling to clear maturity areas left.

Transpack has switched to Hayward along with Huka Pak 2. We will progressively switch the capacity from SunGold to the Hayward which has been patiently waiting. The average Hayward conventional are 6.5 and we are targeting storing lines above 8. Fruit harvested now is likely to be moved quickly as there is low stocks of Hayward in store and orders for fruit to be loaded out.

To the numbers [week ended midnight 6 May 2018]:

SunGold Conventional

Industry Packed         50,844,233             Seeka Packed        8,915,925    [17%]
Industry average size          27.16             Seeka average size       26.71
Loaded out                 3,7007,731             In store                  5,215,195
On order [next 2 weeks]  888,641
Large size profile continues, 56% of the crop Y and T band

SunGold Organic

Industry Packed            661,149            Seeka Packed            125,381    [19%]
Industry average size        27.54            Seeka average size        25.58
Loaded out                       64,537           In store                        60,844
On order [next 2 weeks]    18,333

Hayward conventional

Industry Packed            20,452,451          Seeka Packed        4,922,449   [24%]
Industry average size             30.26          Seeka average size       29.74
Loaded out                      3,298,021          In store                  1,624,429
On order [next 2 weeks]  1,596,949
YTD shipped  67% of submit

Hayward organic

Industry Packed                864,222         Seeka Packed             166,521   [19%]
Industry average size            33.24         Seeka average size         32.99
Loaded out                       133,518          In store                        53,003
On order [next 2 weeks]     40,533
Waiting for mainpack

Sweetgreen G14

Industry Packed             890,616         Seeka Packed               52,351   [6%]
Industry average size         35.36         Seeka average size        35.99
Loaded out                      52,351          In store                                0
On order [next 2 weeks]           0
All done. Successfully completed thanks

Health and Safety

Last week we had a call from one of our growers concerned about the safety of No 4 road in Te Puke with the amount of harvesting going on in the area. In response all trucking contractors and other post harvest providers with orchards on No 4 road were approached and agreed to communicate trucking movements on this road using a CB radio, channel 11. Our team has also placed signage along the road, which cautions all users of the road that they should anticipate a high volume of trucks on this road, and request truck drivers to use channel 11 to advise other trucks. If you have H&S concerns please let our teams know.

Happy and safe harvesting
Kind regards
Michael

 

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